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Enabling Sensitive Conversations with Consent Boundaries: Moa, a Platform for Discussing PhD Advising Relationships [as a testcase] | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Too long and seemingly structurally disconnect, so mind started to slip, but from the points I was able to catch, sounds like those anonymous boards of old I hear about. Iirc there has been an implementation of that in the fediverse already, though it's been some months so can't remember the name.

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Regional identity

If the design's boring and copy-pasted everywhere, how could people grow attached to their houses? Furthermore, if people had to go to apartments, like for unwieldy prices for years now, they would be desensitized on the part of losing the house.

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Google is testing the hiding of YouTube's dislike button entirely from all forms of videos

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Agreed.

Some also argue dislikes are used for censoring, but I'd conter-argue that dissidence is a form of opinion. If people are using the tool illegitimately, it doesn't make the tool itself illegitimate. Rather, investigating suspicious behaviour, of which there are tools one can use on Youtube, should be the way.

And I'd further say the removal hurts not just the content creators, but their followers too. If the creator uses likes ratio as a quality assurance metric, or to know what they should or shouldn't focus on, the lack of the metric will make the service he/she provides worsen, and by extension the experience of their followers.

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Nostr & Farcaster support nearly ready in Bridgy Fed, but currently with no plans to launch them

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Unsure tbf, though something comes to mind.

Maybe "we don't want to accept conservatives"? I know of a guy, tech journalist with conservative views who tried Mastodon before but got banned twice, and then migrated to a Nostr-first instance with ActivityPub support, where he hasn't been banned even after months. If his case is an example, maybe people on the other protocol are more accepting of different views?

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YSK - You can use DxWnd to play fullscreen windows games in a windowed mode

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What, have you never done something that would make your psychiatrist consider you a lost cause? Never had the joys of running some obscure disc you have on Win3.1 on DOSBox-X on Windows Vista on Virtual Box on Linux Mint? Nor have you played some SNES game on a SNES Station on the PS2 mode of a PS3 with a system mod that doesn't allow homebrews? Or even open 5 different virtual machines at once in a 10 y.o. and partially damaged laptop running on a mechanical hard drive with the heavy Ubuntu? 😬

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2026 - 43 : Let's explore the fediverse 🤓

Recently found https://catalog.catodon.rocks/

Imo it's better than Lemmyverse because I need to do just one search, instead of one per software in the same conditions.

Also on Fennec it doesn't seem very responsive in the UI for confirming searches, but adding ?q= to the end of the link then what's to be searched, and loading the resulting link, seems to circumvent well enough the issue. Like with https://catalog.catodon.rocks/?q=horse for finding horse-related communities.